Sentence examples for are contestable from inspiring English sources
adjective
That which can be contested.
- Some said he was the greatest of his time but with the amount of talent around that view was contestable
The centres of Scotland's arts scenes are contestable, but no one would argue that anywhere but Glasgow is the country's musical capital.
Interpretations, however, are contestable - especially if you have expensive lawyers and sophisticated accountants bent on finding an interpretation that will permit a valued client to do what he or she wishes.
For Connolly, the solution is to accept that conflict is inevitable, but to cultivate generosity, and try to understand that our own beliefs are contestable, and not beyond reproach.
The first two assumptions are contestable; as for dining, however, this culturally rich city of 600,000 equals or surpasses its larger siblings in offering a remarkable variety of so-called X cuisines -- Mexican, Tex-Mex, nuevo-Tex-Mex, regional-Mex and New-Mex-Mex (from New Mexico).
All three claims are contestable.On the first, northern English voters are in the same boat; and people in remote parts of Scotland fear the SNP's centralising tendency is a threat to the local government that works best there.
Even the ways we draw our distinctions between mind and body, ideas and objects, discourse and reality, are contestable.
What makes ours a "secular" age, he writes, is not that it is defined by unbelief, but rather that belief is contestable and contested.
Aristotle believed education should "be contestable".
But Zhang's claim is contestable.
That first goal, after 34 scoreless minutes had allowed Chile to believe the game was contestable, was absolutely planned.
